At the track

Mr. Luos · #1 05-10-2006, 10:57 PM

Well...I had a great time.
Car did about what I expected. Not much traction...lots of spinning through first gear. Enough that you could feel the torque curve drop off and it would hook tossing the car forward nicely.
Still....2.2xx 60's.

http://home.comcast.net/~mrluos/track.wmv

Good ol' Bandimere.

Using this as my background right now.

I didn't even know this was coming. Apparently the organizers were setting up a couple of awards. They asked random people to give out the number of the car they thought looked the best. I got second place.
I don't even consider my car a show car.

Slip....Kinda hard to read. Track's printer was low on ink.
12.64 at 115.44 MPH.
NHRA adjusted for altitude - 11.72 at 124.36
DA for that run was 7400.

I didn't get many pics. Was too busy.

karll · #2 05-10-2006, 11:52 PM

Bitchin'. Is that with the magnaflows on?

Mr. Luos · #3 05-11-2006, 12:05 AM

Nope.
They didn't get put on yet.

I will have a clip this weekend with those hung up.

doodad · #4 05-11-2006, 12:11 AM

the numbers are cool but the only thhing impressed me is that exhaust sound man!! never change it, that sound is great! so did you calculate? at sea level which number should you get?

doodad · #5 05-11-2006, 12:13 AM

by the way, you should definetely work on your launchs or you should get damn sticky radials to give you 99% traction... man, you lost like 1 second because of bad traction. IMO.

76ta · #6 05-11-2006, 12:13 AM

hahah you smooked whoever was in the right lane

Mr. Luos · #7 05-11-2006, 08:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by doodad

by the way, you should definetely work on your launchs or you should get damn sticky radials to give you 99% traction... man, you lost like 1 second because of bad traction. IMO.

You make it sound like I don't already know that.

I wasn't able to find a good launching place on the tires I was on. Nitto DR's. I swear they are better street tires than track tires.

And the sound is changing a bit. The Magnaflows are getting put up here tomorrow.

Adjusted times were posted. 11.7 at 124 (about that anyways)

wrightz28 · #8 05-11-2006, 10:49 AM

Nice, you killed just about everything on wheels there

What happened with the stang tho? Looked pretty close by about 1/2 a car in your favor?

doodad · #9 05-11-2006, 01:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Luos

You make it sound like I don't already know that.

I wasn't able to find a good launching place on the tires I was on. Nitto DR's. I swear they are better street tires than track tires.

l meant those HUGE drag radials, you know front wheels are a small and rear wheels are huge.. you should line up with those.. l guess you got mid-high ten seconds car...(with 100% traction)

Mr. Luos · #10 05-11-2006, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by wrightz28

Nice, you killed just about everything on wheels there

What happened with the stang tho? Looked pretty close by about 1/2 a car in your favor?

I had to play catch up.

Beat him by about 0.3 seconds.

And Erdal...with a shitton of traction at sea level it is a 10 second car. I will be hard pressed to get into the 11's here though.

giddyup50 · #11 05-11-2006, 07:17 PM

At first I was going to say you need to ditch the Nitto's and get BFG drag radials. But after seeing the vid. and knowing that you have over 500hp AT THE DAMN WHEELS....YOU NEED SLICKS!!!!!! Or atleast the M/T ET Street with a few grooves in it. How those got a DOT # I'll never know. I thought with that much power you'd be lifting the front but you can't cause it's not hookin. It's pretty cool when you hit 2nd though and you finally hook. Or atleast get some dirt track tires. They don't have a DOT # and they get kind of wobblely on the highway but, they hook like hell at the track. I used to use McCreary's soft compound. They were like a damn sponge they were so soft, and that's before the burnout. Ofcourse, with about 285hp at the cranck, I didn't have too much trouble finding a good tire. Your situation's a little different.

Mr. Luos · #12 05-11-2006, 07:20 PM

I will have track tires and wheels next season!

88camaroproject · #13 05-11-2006, 07:21 PM

thats awesome. nice track too. blows the hell out of the one in bithlo. orlando speed world i think. i go there like almost every friday. they did a season of pink there. but its not that nice. what ever gets the job done.

skibum1111 · #14 05-11-2006, 08:18 PM

And I thought you weren't going to burn the nitto's....

Mr. Luos · #15 05-11-2006, 08:28 PM

The track is one thing.

I am planning on taking some of my old tires and seeing if I can hold a 4th gear burnout. Soon.

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